Monday, March 28, 2011

Sigmund Freud- A Legacy of Embitterment

Thesis: In his "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death", Sigmund Freud asserts that WWI destroyed the optimism and good feeling that had existed in pre-war Europe.

  • Science is used to justify war
  • Lots of people have been displaced
  • Before the way people were idealistic, believed that problems could be settled without fighting
  • Naive, idealistic belief system destroyed by WWI
  • People thought that civilians would not be touched by the war
  • War brought disillusionment, disregarded international law

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